New technologies to investigate the brain-gut axis

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 182-191

  Sharma, Abhishek ^a,b   Lelic, Dina ^c   Brock, Christina ^c   Paine, Peter ^a,b   Aziz, Qasim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Brain gut axis; Central processing; Neuroaxis; Neurophysiology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; ENTERITIS; ENTEROPATHY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENETIC TRAIT; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE INNERVATION; IRRITABLE COLON; LATENT PERIOD; LOCUS CERULEUS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; VAGUS NERVE; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 59249099805     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.182     Document Type: Review

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